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Difference troubles : queering social theory and sexual politics / Steven Seidman.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge cultural social studiesPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997Description: xiii, 307 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521599709
  • 9780521599702
  • 0521590434
  • 9780521590433
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.01
LOC classification:
  • HM276. S445 1997
Contents:
Introduction: The contemporary reconfiguring of social theory and cultural politics -- Part I. Resisting Difference: The Malaise of the Human Sciences: -- 1. The political unconscious of the human sciences -- 2. The end of sociological theory -- 3. Relativizing sociology: the challenge of cultural studies -- 4. The refusal of sexual difference: queering sociology -- 5. Difference troubles: the flight of sociology from 'otherness' -- Part II. Between Identity and Difference: From Lesbian and Gay to Queer Theory: -- 6. Identity and politics in a 'postmodern' gay culture -- 7. Deconstructing queer theory or some difficulties in a theory and politics of difference -- Part III. Democratic Prospects: The Politics of Knowledge and Identity: -- 8. Transfiguring sexual identity: aids and the cultural politics of sexuality and homosexuality -- 9. From gay ethnicity to queer politics: the renewal of gay radicalism in the United States -- 10. Postmodern anxiety: the politics of epistemology -- 11. The politics of sexual difference in late twentieth century America -- 12. Difference and democracy: group recognition and the political cultures of the United States, Holland, and France -- Epilogue: pragmatism, difference and a culture of strong democracy.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-303) and index.

Introduction: The contemporary reconfiguring of social theory and cultural politics -- Part I. Resisting Difference: The Malaise of the Human Sciences: -- 1. The political unconscious of the human sciences -- 2. The end of sociological theory -- 3. Relativizing sociology: the challenge of cultural studies -- 4. The refusal of sexual difference: queering sociology -- 5. Difference troubles: the flight of sociology from 'otherness' -- Part II. Between Identity and Difference: From Lesbian and Gay to Queer Theory: -- 6. Identity and politics in a 'postmodern' gay culture -- 7. Deconstructing queer theory or some difficulties in a theory and politics of difference -- Part III. Democratic Prospects: The Politics of Knowledge and Identity: -- 8. Transfiguring sexual identity: aids and the cultural politics of sexuality and homosexuality -- 9. From gay ethnicity to queer politics: the renewal of gay radicalism in the United States -- 10. Postmodern anxiety: the politics of epistemology -- 11. The politics of sexual difference in late twentieth century America -- 12. Difference and democracy: group recognition and the political cultures of the United States, Holland, and France -- Epilogue: pragmatism, difference and a culture of strong democracy.

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